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THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF<br/>
<span class=large>JAMES</span>
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CHAPTER 3
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By governing the tongue we gain perfection—Heavenly wisdom is pure, peaceable, and full of mercy.
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My</span> brethren, <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/1a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST James 3: 1  . . .  strive not for the mastery, knowing that in so doing we shall receive the greater condemnation.">be</a> not many <sup>b</sup><a href="james/3/1b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR (also) teachers.">masters</a>, knowing that we shall <sup>c</sup><a href="james/3/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 82: 3.">receive</a> the greater condemnation.
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For in many things we <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/2a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR stumble, err.">offend</a> all.  If any man <sup>b</sup><a href="james/3/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Offenses.">offend</a> not in <sup>c</sup><a href="james/3/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ps. 39: 1; Prov. 21: 23.">word</a>, the same <i>is</i> a <sup>d</sup><a href="james/3/2d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Perfection.">perfect</a> man, <i>and</i> able also to bridle the whole body.
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Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
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Behold also the ships, which though <i>they be</i> so great, and <i>are</i> driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/4a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR helmsman, pilot.">governor</a> listeth.
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Even so the tongue is a little member, and <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Boasting; TG Rashness.">boasteth</a> great things.  Behold, how great a <sup>b</sup><a href="james/3/5b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR forest.">matter</a> a little fire kindleth!
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 16: 27; Mark 7: 20 (19-23); Alma 12: 14; D&C 88: 121.">tongue</a> <i>is</i> a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
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For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
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But the <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Gossip; TG Profanity.">tongue</a> can no man tame; <i>it is</i> an <sup>b</sup><a href="james/3/8b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR untameable, uncontrollable.">unruly</a> evil, full of deadly poison.
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Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Curse.">curse</a> we men, which are made after the <sup>b</sup><a href="james/3/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Body of - Corporeal Nature.">similitude</a> of God.
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Out of the same <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/10a" mark="a" type="C" title="Matt. 12: 34; Luke 6: 45; TG Hypocrisy.">mouth</a> proceedeth blessing and cursing.  My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
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Doth a <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/11a" mark="a" type="Q" title="GR spring, well; Moro. 7: 11 (6-11).">fountain</a> send forth at the same place sweet <i>water</i> and bitter?
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Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?  either a vine, figs?  so <i>can</i> no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
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Who <i>is</i> a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?  let him shew out of a good <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 12: 13 (13-19).">conversation</a> his works with <sup>b</sup><a href="james/3/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Meekness.">meekness</a> of wisdom.
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But if ye have bitter envying and <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Strife.">strife</a> in your hearts, <sup>b</sup><a href="james/3/14b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR do not assume superiority over.">glory</a> not, and lie not against the truth.
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This wisdom descendeth not from above, but <i>is</i> earthly, sensual, devilish.
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For where <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Envy.">envying</a> and <sup>b</sup><a href="james/3/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Contention.">strife</a> <i>is,</i> there <i>is</i> confusion and every evil work.
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But the <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Intelligence of; TG Wisdom.">wisdom</a> that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, <i>and</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="james/3/17b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR pliant, easily persuaded.">easy</a> to be intreated, full of <sup>c</sup><a href="james/3/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG God, Mercy of.">mercy</a> and good fruits, without partiality, and without <sup>d</sup><a href="james/3/17d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 121: 42.">hypocrisy</a>.
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And the fruit of <sup>a</sup><a href="james/3/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a> is sown in <sup>b</sup><a href="james/3/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Peace; TG Peace of God.">peace</a> of them that make <sup>c</sup><a href="james/3/18c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Peacemakers.">peace</a>.
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